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...difficulties, Iran still expects economic growth of 17% in the new year (the Iranian year 1355). The government is pressing ahead on industrial-development programs, including the construction of two nuclear-power plants, four steel mills and a mammoth $2 billion petrochemical installation...
...surely aware that 50 is barely puberty in the life of a politician. Could he be subjecting himself to the chaos of political conventions because of an old obsession, the one prize life has denied him? How could a writer resist the fantasy: a hopelessly deadlocked convention; a sudden mammoth coming-to-trie-senses by the delegates; a whisper cascading into a roar that will not be gaveled into silence. And out into the glare of klieg lights and a forest of microphones there steps, at last, the Best...
Rightly or wrongly, multinational corporations have been accused of a multitude of sins: bribery, tax evasion, reaping outlandish profits, seeking to overthrow governments. Lately the list has grown to include a truly ghastly accusation. Nestle Alimentana of Vevey, Switzerland, the mammoth (1974 sales: $5.6 billion) and venerable food company, is being charged by activists with responsibility for mass deaths of babies...
...knew all about the San Andreas fault, 45 miles inland, and the Rinconada fault, some 20 miles away. So its engineers designed the plant to survive a quake registering 6.75 on the Richter scale.* The concrete foundations are 14 ft. thick, for example, and a cross section of the mammoth dome over each reactor would show 3½ ft. of concrete, liberally laced with steel reinforcing rods...
HARVARD REALLY can't solve the problem on its own. The truth of the matter is that there are few opportunities for someone who wants to go out and make a paid occupation out of serving the public good. Some graduates do run for political office, others join some mammoth bureaucracy where their role improving society is at best remote. A dedicated few organize their own community organization and give up hope of earning enough money on which to live comfortably. But public money available for welfare programs, public health care, community services and other areas in which the socially...